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What the published project accounts agree on as of 2027
What the published project accounts agree on: across film, tape and digital preservation guidance, the same four conclusions recur. What they.
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Family archive case studies are rare: what to use instead
Family archive case studies are rare, so this looks at what published evidence from the NIST disc study, LOCKSS and NDIIPP can and cannot show you.
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Which questions actually separate a restoration specialist from a reseller?
A reseller quotes a rate and sends the work out. A restoration specialist names the formats they run in house and the equipment that reads them.
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Digitizing immigration and residential-school records under Canadian access rules
Digitizing residential-school and immigration records in Canada means two access systems: IRPA for immigration files, community control for school records.
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Photo restoration first steps when something is water damaged: the parts worth your time
Water damage develops over minutes to hours, and simple air drying is often wrong. The emergency sequence, and how to get a wet item out of its frame safely.
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Restoration is actually three different jobs wearing one name
Three different jobs go by the name restoration. Knowing which one you want, and learning the vocabulary for damage, decides everything that follows.
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Archive risk starts with inspecting the building, not just the boxes
Inspection routine that catches problems early: active and passive detection explained, how often to inspect a home collection, what to look at in a building.
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When to hand framing or mounting work to a professional, and five questions to ask
When framing or mounting should go to document preservation companies instead of your own hands, five questions for a shop, and where conservators are listed.
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Document preservation: borrowing fire planning from professional archive models
Fire and emergency planning translated to a house: the three-element model behind fire risk, and the hazard survey that turns worry into a short list of fixes.
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Risk in a photo archive: it follows the material, not the subject
Risk in a photograph collection follows the material, not the subject. How to spot nitrate and acetate film, cased images and color, and what each one needs.
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Learning photograph care, and judging a lab's work
Where to learn photograph preservation without naming studios, plus the inspection routine that tells you whether a copying job came back good enough.
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Digitization planning starts with an inventory, not a scanner purchase
How a digitization project is actually planned: the order institutions work in before any scanning starts, identify the formats, assess condition, inventory.
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Conservation basics move into a family archive, but not every one survives
What institutional practice teaches a household collection: the conservation basics that transfer from an archive to a house, the ones that need a building.